Interaction of natural killer cells with Trypanosoma cruzi-infected fibroblasts

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 357-364

  Lieke, T ^a,b   Steeg, C ^a   Graefe, S E B ^a   Fleischer, B ^a   Jacobs, T ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

iNOS; NK cells; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FIBROBLASTS; GUANIDINES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-12; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33745963409     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2006.03118.x     Document Type: Article

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